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John Danaher

School of Law, NUI Galway
Verified email at nuigalway.ie
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Algorithmic governance: Developing a research agenda through the power of collective intelligence

J Danaher, MJ Hogan, C Noone… - Big data & …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We are living in an algorithmic age where mathematics and computer science are coming
together in powerful new ways to influence, shape and guide our behaviour and the …

The threat of algocracy: Reality, resistance and accommodation

J Danaher - Philosophy & technology, 2016 - Springer
One of the most noticeable trends in recent years has been the increasing reliance of public
decision-making processes (bureaucratic, legislative and legal) on algorithms, ie computer …

[BOOK][B] Robot sex: Social and ethical implications

J Danaher, N McArthur - 2017 - books.google.com
Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the
possible future of robot-human sexual relationships. Sexbots are coming. Given the pace of …

Welcoming robots into the moral circle: a defence of ethical behaviourism

J Danaher - Science and engineering ethics, 2020 - Springer
Can robots have significant moral status? This is an emerging topic of debate among
roboticists and ethicists. This paper makes three contributions to this debate. First, it presents …

[BOOK][B] Automation and utopia: Human flourishing in a world without work

J Danaher - 2019 - books.google.com
Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. But this can be a good thing—
if we play our cards right. Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will …

Generative AI entails a credit–blame asymmetry

S Porsdam Mann, BD Earp, S Nyholm… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Generative AI programs can produce high-quality written and visual content that may be
used for good or ill. We argue that a credit–blame asymmetry arises for assigning …

Robots, law and the retribution gap

J Danaher - Ethics and Information Technology, 2016 - Springer
We are living through an era of increased robotisation. Some authors have already begun to
explore the impact of this robotisation on legal rules and practice. In doing so, many …

Will life be worth living in a world without work? Technological unemployment and the meaning of life

J Danaher - Science and engineering ethics, 2017 - Springer
Suppose we are about to enter an era of increasing technological unemployment. What
implications does this have for society? Two distinct ethical/social issues would seem to …

Robotic rape and robotic child sexual abuse: should they be criminalised?

J Danaher - Criminal law and philosophy, 2017 - Springer
Soon there will be sex robots. The creation of such devices raises a host of social, legal and
ethical questions. In this article, I focus in on one of them. What if these sex robots are …

The philosophical case for robot friendship

J Danaher - Journal of Posthuman Studies, 2019 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Friendship is an important part of the good life. While many roboticists are eager to create
friendlike robots, many philosophers and ethicists are concerned. They argue that robots …